You do know that the majority of farmers in Britain own guns, go hunting and such? Perfectly legal, you just need a licence, my friend at college works at a gun club, my other friend owns a shotgun and caught his own bird for x-mas this year. Since they use shotguns - something non-concealable, it's legal, its only handguns and machine guns that are illegal, so please try to understand, there practicality in gun use, but then there's letting idiots have access to guns which can be hidden and used anywhere.
I guess it's a young country indeed, but you look at the amount of changes in our influence by the monarchy in Britain in regards to political control, it's only been in the past 100 years that the democratically elected government has had the much more of a say in how the country is run. You're still using the same rhetoric that was decided 200 years ago as a guideline in a completely difference society (before the nuclear family, just getting into the industrial ages there), society has forced change upon Britain, since the invention of the telegraph and radio, communication technology has had a big influence, yet your country now with a whole different society structure, with new communication possibilities is still sticking to what they thought was best 200 years ago. Maybe I'm criticising America a little too much, i mean this was a disaster and it was the actions of a few, the constitution is still quite relevant considering when it was written, like the ten commandments for example. It's just I fail to see the benefit of this "eye for an eye" fear syndrome that is intended by installing guns in the hands of the masses.
There's a grey area I don't wanna go too deep into, but I understand any American defending the constitution, after all, it is often taught in schools to be held in high regard, something of national pride.
The point I made about knives was nothing to do with; "lets all carry knives" my point was meant to illustrate that any kind of weapon which isn't projectile based is much more easily dealt with. A guy comes to a classroom with a gun, ****, you don't do a thing, guy comes in with a knife, I bet you that the police aren't the ones who are gonna take that guy down, well, at least in the school I went to
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Like I said though, America is incapable of this kind of change now, such important changes in a country must be brought about naturally, and should not be forced, in history we've learned that much.
